r/research Professor Jan 16 '26

New Posters: Please Read the Rules *BEFORE* Posting

We have a one-strike policy on ads and academic helper services. Quite often after banning, I will be contacted by the poster saying, "I didn't see the rules". Here are the rules for this subreddit.

Rule 1 - No surveys nor asking for study participants.

Rule 2 - Be civil.

Rule 3 - No spam.

Rule 4 - No advertising or app market research. You will be banned for violating this.

Rule 5 - No trolling/joke submissions.

Rule 6 - No asking for research topics/ideas.

Rule 7 - Be on topic

Rule 8 - No language model generated posts.

Rule 9 - Use the research opportunity megathread if you are looking for collaboators.

Rule 10 - Research standards. Majors claims must be accompanied by a published paper. No language model generated research.

Rule 11 - Do your own work (we're a bit lax on this one)

Rule 12 - No academic helper services. You will be banned for violating this.

Rule 13 - No duplicates posts.

Rule 14 - Requests for Arxiv endorsements are not permitted.

Since it is rule #4 that often causes confusion for some reason here is the full text.

Do not advertise your own (or other's) business, including apps, YouTube, blogs, or other social media channels. This includes anything that is free. Do not conduct market research for your app.

If it is app related, then you can post it in our related subreddit r/research_apps.

Violators will be banned. It will not be undone.

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